Reading mathematics in early modern Europe studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books / edited by Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu and Benjamin Wardhaugh.
| Other author | Beeley, Philip. |
| Other author | Nasifoglu, Yelda. |
| Other author | Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Material readings in early modern culture |
| Contents | Did Euclid prove Elements I, 12? The early modern debate on intersections and continuity / Vincenzo De Risi -- Numbers and paths : Henry Savile's manuscript treatises on the Euclidean theory of proportion / Robert Goulding -- Reading by drawing. The changing nature of mathematical diagrams in seventeenth-century England / Yelda Nasifoglu -- Interpreting mathematical error : Tycho's problematic diagram and readers' responses / Renee Raphael -- Reading mathematics in the English collegiate-humanist universities / Mordechai Feingold -- Tutor, antiquarian, and almost a practitioner : Brian Twyne's readings of mathematics / Richard J. Oosterhoff -- the origin and development of the Savilian Library / William Poole -- 'A designe inchoate'. Edward bernard's planned edition of Euclid and its scholarly afterlife in late seventeenth-century Oxford / Philip Beeley -- 'The admonitions of a good-natured reader' : marks of use in Georgian mathematical textbooks / Benjamin Wardhaugh -- Instrumental reading : towards a typology of use in early modern practical mathematical texts / Boris Jardine -- 'Several choice collections' in geometry, astronomy, and chronology : using and collecting mathematics in early modern England / Kevin Tracey. |
| Abstract | "By defining and illuminating the distinctive world of early modern mathematical reading, the volume seeks to close the gap between the history of mathematics as a history of texts and history of mathematics as part of the broader history of human culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020026577 |
| ISBN | 9780367609252 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |